If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThis war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIn our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN